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WASHINGTON: The Democratic People’s Republic of
Korea (DPRK) has handed over its key nuclear-weapons documents to a
visiting US diplomat, local media quoted a senior State Department
official as saying Thursday.
US envoy Sung Kim, who received
the documents in Pyongyang earlier in the day, is to carry them to
South Korea later this week, the unidentified official said.
The documents are detailed
technical logs from the DPRK’s shuttered plutonium reactor.
“They are an important element
in the verification of a declaration which will include figures for
the amount of plutonium they [the DPRK] have produced,” the
official said.
Prior to his latest visit to the
DPRK, Sung Kim, director of the Korea Office at the State
Department, had talks with DPRK officials in Pyongyang on April 22
on how to verify any declaration the DPRK may make about its nuclear
programs.
Under an agreement reached at the
six-party talks in Beijing in February last year, the DPRK agreed to
abandon all nuclear weapons and programs and declare all its nuclear
programs and facilities by the end of 2007, in exchange for
diplomatic and economic incentives.
However, the DPRK missed the
deadline despite reported progress in its nuclear disablement and
declaration.
The US has urged the country to
fully declare its nuclear programs and activities.
--Xinhua
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